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But that’s the thing. A mini pet is a skin. It should follow the exact same rules for culling that the surf board on your back that you spent months and months building does. As soon as the culling switches you from the grey being to me seeing your armor and sword, I should see your mini, if you have one. If the culling system decides it’s not ready to show the mini, then you should remain a nameless faceless blob until it’s time.
To many people, the mini is an extension of their character that they want the rest of the world to see, just like the L33t D00dz Sw0rdz!1!1 you acquired. The system shouldn’t give preference to one skin over another.
But the sad part about all this is it’s another stealth change they were hoping not to talk about disguised as new features. If this is intentional, they should be honest and come out and say what they were really hoping to achieve, and if they have no intention of changing it so people that spent money on mini pets are treated with the same respect as people that spend money on keys to get tickets to buy weapon skins, they should allow us to get a full refund on every mini pet or pet pack we bought from the store since the beginning of the game.
You could already turn down the number of high res models before, hiding all that shiny gear I want to impress you with 
Pets, I guess get the lowest priority atm, personal one included.
The thing is IMO this was just another “feature” nobody asked for. Before, there were only the few avid mini pet fans who had them out. Now everyone can “fire and forget” a pet and in a zerg of 50+ that does take up resources and would look as silly as all the commander tags does now (who also need better options).
There isn’t many alternatives. Remove the checkbox for the pet so it has to be clicked every map like before or put checkboxes with “always show my pet” and/or “show only my pet”.